Show HN: A tool to give every local process a stable URL

In working with parallel agents in different worktrees, I found that I had a lot of port conflicts, went back and forth checking what incremented port my dev server was running on, and cookie bleed.

This isnt a big issue if running a few servers with full a stack framework like Next, Nuxt, or Sveltekit, but if you run a Rust backend and a Vite frontend In multiple worktrees, it gets way more complicated, and the mental model starts to break. That's not even adding in databases, or caches.

So I built Roxy, which is a single Go binary that wraps your dev servers (or any process actually) and gives you a stable .test domain based on the branch name and cwd.

It runs a proxy and dns server that handles all the domain routing, tls, port mapping, and forwarding for you.

It currently supports:

- HTTP for your web apps and APIs - Most TCP connections for your db, cache and message/queue layers - TLS support so you can run HTTPS - Run multiple processes at once each with a unique URL, like Docker compose - Git and worktree awareness - Detached mode - Zero config startup

My co-workers and I have been using it a lot with our workflow and i think it's ready for public use.

We support MacOS and Linux

I'll be working on some more useful features like Docker compose/Procfile compatibility and tunneling so you can access your dev environment remotely with a human readable URL

Give it a try, and open an issue if something doesnt quite work right, or to request a feature!

https://github.com/logscore/roxy